The Effect of Discourse Structure Graphic Organizers (DSGOs) on EFL University Students’ Literary Appreciation
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Discourse structure Graphic organizers (DSGOs) represent the expository text's discourse structure and informational unit hierarchies through visual methods. Native-language literature and English texts challenge EFL students. Language learning requires literary skills. The study's goal: Identify EFL university students' literary appreciation, the effect of using DSGOs on it, and which dependent variable—plot, theme, style/mood, setting, character, diction, conflict, and literary devices—has been affected more at the post-test, and the effect of DSGOs on recognition and production levels at the post-test. The following hypotheses were verified to attain these goals: the average of EFL university students' literary appreciation level at the post-test is within the theoretical level of performance, there are no statistically significant differences in the mean scores of the experimental group taught using DSGOs, and the control group taught using the conventional method—experimental research design. Ten weeks were spent on the experiment. The experimental and control groups were given a test to assess their perception of DSGOs instruction, a pretest to determine homogeneity and classify students by reading ability, and a post-test to assess the impact of DSGOs on literary appreciation. The researcher examined first-semester students. The survey involved 90 English majors from EFL Iraqi University's Second Stage (Department of English) College of Education for Humanities/University of Tikrit. Who is randomly selected in 2023/2024, SPSS analyzed data. The study revealed that students appreciate DSGOs instruction. It enhances pupil appreciation. The study advises introducing DSGOs to language curriculum to improve literary comprehension. Conclusions, recommendations, and future research are offered from the study
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